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just got back from my interview in leamington spa.
Well it was a bit of a waste of train fare really
I felt pretty relaxed going in there, but it was just one of those interviews that kind of sucked from the start.
I actually spent more time chatting with the HR than the lead artist, which is never a good sign, as is not being shown around the office and meeting key staff.
I feel it was good practice though as I have another one on tuesday in nottingham which (touch wood) seems more promising.
A tip to anyone , never stay at 'premier travel inns' as they suck. 58 squid per night and you don't even get breakfast or evening meal included
Well it was a bit of a waste of train fare really
I felt pretty relaxed going in there, but it was just one of those interviews that kind of sucked from the start.
I actually spent more time chatting with the HR than the lead artist, which is never a good sign, as is not being shown around the office and meeting key staff.
I feel it was good practice though as I have another one on tuesday in nottingham which (touch wood) seems more promising.
A tip to anyone , never stay at 'premier travel inns' as they suck. 58 squid per night and you don't even get breakfast or evening meal included
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Around 2 am in the morning when I was drunk/sleeping they knocked on my door to apologise for the fire alarm.
WTF? they could have waited until the morning.
yeah I nicked all the sugar/coffee when I left. Had to get something for my money
P.S - happened the same with me with the fire alarm, but when i went into the cold air i had my braccers apparatus that made me look like a freak of nature...
cheers johnny. seems this is my last chance of a job until after christmas
what is 'braccers apparatus'?
my experience with interviews is that no single job worked out where i was shown around the office on the interview day. mind you, at my current employer it takes half a day to be shown around the place anyway... i'm still getting lost here in the corridors sometimes.
It was n't codemasters BTW, they didn't even get back to me he he
yeah no interview expenses, no relocation package etc . In fact I would have had to pay them to let me work there
Doubt I'll apply to codies again, they called me for a second interview, so I went down from middlesbrough, and back the day after (costing me about £45 in petrol alone) for a job they were never going to give me anyway. They told someone else from my uni that they weren't taking masters students because the course finished in september and they were looking for people to start around June.
Hope you have better luck in the future.
good luck!
There are a bunch of talented artists working at Eurocom too (Matt Dixon and Aly Fell from ConceptArt.org spring to mind - or at least they used to work there).
Good luck with the job wherever it was!
spacemonkey - we got a couple of guys from your old place working at swordfish now. Designers i think
Lupus - I will PM you
thomasp - I will be heading straight home after. I had heard about nottinghams rep, but there again it depends which part you choose to live in.
You could always move to canada.. lots of places are recruiting, just depends how comfortable you are from being far away from home!
ha ha no comment. They seemed a bit moody but TBH I never really dealt with them much. They just sat around making sceret designery plans:)
yeah I feel moving to canada is a big risk for me, cause if i went there and it didn't work out for me like at frontier then i would be a bit screwed:)
Good luck man.